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My sister gave me goosebumps when she told me she saw me in the garden staring at my plants, and when she went inside she jumped in fear because I was watching television in the living room! Did she just see my doppelganger or was it just her antidepressants talking?

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Originally Posted by SizzlingTeapot

My sister gave me goosebumps when she told me she saw me in the garden staring at my plants, and when she went inside she jumped in fear because I was watching television in the living room! Did she just see my doppelganger or was it just her antidepressants talking?

More details would be a little more helpful, although this is still pretty much a case of "cool story, bro".
Where actually were you- inside or outside?

Do you have any evidence for the embedded assumption that doppelgangers exist?

My sister gave me goosebumps when she told me she saw me in the garden staring at my plants, and when she went inside she jumped in fear because I was watching television in the living room! Did she just see my doppelganger or was it just her antidepressants talking?

As per S.O.P, did you alert reptillian command that this particular human female needs to be replaced immediately lest the conspiracy be exposed?

A description of your sister's mental health and medical history would be the starting point for taking this seriously. Then we need an actual account of the movements of the 2 people involved, with distances and times.

Anyone who accepts the story as presented as evidence for the existence of dopplegangers is just gullible.

__________________"The Conservatives want to keep wogs out and march boldly back to the 1950s when Britain still had an Empire and blacks, women, poofs and Irish knew their place." The Don That's what we've sunk to here.

Probably pareidolia. She saw a pattern she interpreted as a human figure and assumed it was you.

__________________"If you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things" - Terry Pratchett

She was probably abducted by aliens after she saw you in the garden. The missing time while they were anally probing her allowed you to finish the garden work and get inside the house. It's really that simple.

__________________"Such reports are usually based on the sighting of something the sighters cannot explain and that they (or someone else on their behalf) explain as representing an interstellar spaceship-often by saying "But what else can it be?" as though thier own ignorance is a decisive factor." Isaac Asimov

My sister gave me goosebumps when she told me she saw me in the garden staring at my plants, and when she went inside she jumped in fear because I was watching television in the living room! Did she just see my doppelganger or was it just her antidepressants talking?

Why would she be afraid that you were watching television?

__________________I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. TrudeauA person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black.Enjoy every sandwich. - Warren Zevon

Just because a doppelganger has taken your form, it doesn't mean it is YOUR doppelganger. They belong to themselves, just like anyone else. They have their own lives, their own thoughts, their own hopes and dreams. Until they kill you and take your place. Then they are basically you.

A description of your sister's mental health and medical history would be the starting point for taking this seriously. Then we need an actual account of the movements of the 2 people involved, with distances and times.

Anyone who accepts the story as presented as evidence for the existence of dopplegangers is just gullible.

Great point. There is just so much more information needed to even speculate. I'm leaning toward "just gullible" though.

Just because a doppelganger has taken your form, it doesn't mean it is YOUR doppelganger. They belong to themselves, just like anyone else. They have their own lives, their own thoughts, their own hopes and dreams. Until they kill you and take your place. Then they are basically you.

Whose doppelganger are you?

__________________I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. TrudeauA person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black.Enjoy every sandwich. - Warren Zevon

__________________"The Conservatives want to keep wogs out and march boldly back to the 1950s when Britain still had an Empire and blacks, women, poofs and Irish knew their place." The Don That's what we've sunk to here.

__________________I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. TrudeauA person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black.Enjoy every sandwich. - Warren Zevon

__________________"The Conservatives want to keep wogs out and march boldly back to the 1950s when Britain still had an Empire and blacks, women, poofs and Irish knew their place." The Don That's what we've sunk to here.

__________________"I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people." - "Saint" Teresa, the lying thieving Albanian dwarf

__________________I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. TrudeauA person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black.Enjoy every sandwich. - Warren Zevon

__________________Me: So what you're saying is that, if the load carrying ability of the lower structure is reduced to the point where it can no longer support the load above it, it will collapse without a jolt, right?

__________________I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. TrudeauA person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black.Enjoy every sandwich. - Warren Zevon

__________________Me: So what you're saying is that, if the load carrying ability of the lower structure is reduced to the point where it can no longer support the load above it, it will collapse without a jolt, right?

__________________I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. TrudeauA person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black.Enjoy every sandwich. - Warren Zevon

__________________"I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people." - "Saint" Teresa, the lying thieving Albanian dwarf

__________________Me: So what you're saying is that, if the load carrying ability of the lower structure is reduced to the point where it can no longer support the load above it, it will collapse without a jolt, right?

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